Show S RARE RAE RA CHINESE CURIO 5 Staff or ou 0 Sceptre S e from Forbid 5 5 da c of orl C ln Now New olk Oct 16 Dr C the American An IU 1111 stalin soum natural ha announced the r qui museum of ot an lS larO Chinese from fromKin Cr m Kin KIn Citing Chine the tle forbidden city It of oC Pa Pd P kin It lt 1 It Is sr c called calicO c I c a judges staff star or 11 Is fashioned ned of lacquered wood woodmore more nl n century ce old and at on end Is an aim elaborately I iy carved crested head hlad of I dragon the tile Im Ito I phial emblem of China l and Ind the thc other end IB Is I sharpened l c to t a point point After Atter bad had heard the evi ovi evidence dence lence In the case ease of OfIL a prisoner charged capital takes up the tue lie IJ dragons Kea ten hedd at thc tho prisoner t goes free Iee tee but prisoner II Is 11 confronted with the sharpened end he lie bust lul be he beheaded This TIlis is il i sold said to be pc tl tha only specimen of or Its Il kind I nd sali eer ver obtained from froni the th for 01 bidden and amid brought bro glit to this coun country countr try tr It J is the gift of 01 M if J F Savage of ot this city el who obtained ed it for fol the tho 11 mu nut soun som ago from an un East Elt In Indian dian merchant met chant Mr Ni 1 Savage says that thaI Judges staff or 01 sceptre was only used In itt the forbidden city olty at the th trial of ot great no nobles bles It was wa obtained 1 by b an American artist named wd Mueller ll ter n a 1 soldier sol lel of or for fortune COI or tune tunc who la ho rode Iod with S III In the tue tte attack on Plevna and who wiit wh entered the tle Imperial city wIth the American troops at the time tinie of the Boxer uprising of or 1900 |